Do you remember your first digital camera?

[JaertX]

Mine was an Epson PhotoPC, bought along with my Gateway (never again I promise) Pentium Pro (before the III even) back in 1996 (I think.)

Anyway, it was fun. No user controls other than turn the flash on or off. No external memory (it could hold 8 pictures if I remember correctly) and no changeable battery. You had to plug it into the wall overnight to charge it.

Thought it'd be cool to see what people started off with.

Below is a picture of the Cadillac Ranch I took in '98 with it.

Um...this isn't resized or compressed. Right out of the camera. Boy, how things have changed!

[pcasciola]

I can barely remember it's been so long, but I remember it was pretty bad. It was a Philips (DU-4?), and it had to be around 1994-1995. I think it was 1.2 megapixel or maybe less even. I just couldn't wait once digital was out, and have probably went through a dozen before getting my 20D. I'm still at work (14 hours and still ticking), but I'll have to dig up and old picture from it later.

[Mills]

Sony Mavica.

[Belmondo]

Kodak DC-25.

493 x 373 pixels in high resolution. It used lithium batteries that cost a fortune, weren't rechargeable, and didn't last very long.

I doubt if I took 100 pictures with this POS.

[DocFrankenstein]

1.1 mp HP POS

I ended up returning it after 20 days. It ate batteries so fast, it was hot! And the quality sucked too.

[Moppie]

Canon A40, not a bad way to enter the digital world.

[symes]

Kodak 4330 3.1MP - had that until a month ago when someone knicked it in Bangkok...thanks god I had my SLR on me...:)

I really liked it for a point and shoot camera...

Cheers

[mickle]

Sony Mavica

[VesselinG]

Pentax Optio 330GS...
Until I recieved my A85 and started taking photographs :)

[thomascanty]

Mine was a Casio QV-10 that I bought around 1994 or 1995. It also had only internal memory, and could hold 99 pictures at it's max (only) resolution of 320x240. The software that I had to use to download the pictures from the camera had an option to enlarge them to 640x480, but that always made them look like crap. Not that the smaller originals were all that great to begin with...

My brother and I used to go deep-sea fishing a lot, and that was the camera I always took with us on those trips. Here are a few shots from it.

Our favorite boat, the Coroloma, in the early morning with the galley's bright lights lit:
http://www.ldphotography.net/cdpf/coroloma1.jpg

The deckhands cleaning the fish on the way back to the dock:
http://www.ldphotography.net/cdpf/fishcleaning2.jpg

My brother holding a couple barracuda:
http://www.ldphotography.net/cdpf/toddbar1.jpg

I still have the camera, by the way, and it still works, but I no longer have the software needed for it so it's pretty much useless now.

[swoop1156]

My first was a Kodak EasyShare CX4330. I originally bought it for my Sister who had children, so she could keep track of them growing and get pictures. I thrn bought MY first digi-camera -- Sony DSC F-707. I used that for a while until unloading that on my mom for $400, and then I got the Sony DSC F-828. Kept that only a few months before getting my Canon Kiss Digital in Japan. Now I am looking at the 20D...or waiting for it's replacement, whenever that may be.

[2goldens]

My first digital is the Canon Digital Rebel 300D. I have 3 other Nikons, all film. I love the digital.

[PhotosGuy]

It's the one I have now! ;-)

[RockOne]

Sure do !. I'm still using it - EOS300D :-) :-)

[MichaelE]

Yep. Epson PhotoPC500 (http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/specs/Epson/epson_photopc500.asp).... Then onto the Kodak DC40 (http://www.kodak.com/global/en/service/products/ekn007610.jhtml?pq-path=10/3905/3915/701), DC50 (http://www.kodak.com/global/en/service/products/ekn007610.jhtml?pq-path=10/3905/3915/701)... We were using them for job records back when I was in the Oil & Gas business unit... :D

[embdaw]

Sony Mavica FD75- I used to think that thing was sooooooooooooo cool!! having a floppy disk and all...haha...now it seems silly to think of using a floppy disk in a camera (or even in a computer nowadays)....haha...:lol::lol::lol::lol:

Then I upgraded to a Sony Mavica FD90 because you could use a memory stick adapter...

Then I went with a Sony P9...

...then came the Canon Rebel (film).....and I became hooked on Canon...

Then the magical day occured with I was browsing Apple.com...and on the main page was the NEW, Amazing, Beautiful 10D and it was coming soon...So I preordered, it shipped 3 very long months later...and I have been in love with it since ;)

[D4VE]

Kodak DC3700.
Not actually that long ago, it was 2.1Megapixel I think.
Anyway, it soon developed an annoying problem: It would look like it had camera shake all the time no matter what you couldnt get a decent sharp image :(

Got my A80 after that anyway, its much much better :D

[RJSorensen]

Canon G2 . . . for me.

[pradeep1]

I remember back in 2002 that I still was not convinced of digital...but I needed something to take pictures with for documentation purposes for business. So I mosey on down to the local Target and buy this cheap Vivitar 1365 or something 2.0 mp camera with a fix lens. I believe it had some internal memory or maybe used a small CF card, but it was a piece of crap. That further turned me off to digital, seeing that 2MP was so bad. But then this piqued my interest and I started doing some research. I stumbled on this board and met Scott Dommin (sdommin), who showed me what he was doing with his Canon Powershot G3 4MP camera. I was totally astounded at the quality and I immediately purchased it. The rest is history. The G3 rekindled my love of photography and I got back into the the full swing of things. I still have that G3, and I consider it my first "real" digital camera.

[JaertX]

I'd also consider the G3 my first "real" digital camera. My Epson was pretty fun, but it was also pretty useless.

Anyway, cool to see that a few people out there went out on a limb a long time ago and bought one of these sub-1 megapixel cameras. It also suprises me how many people posted that have a pretty current digital camera that is their first.

Cool.

[freddycr]

Creative 1.3 MegaPIx. Quite a fuzzy useless POS

[liza]

I had a Kodak DX6490 initially, but quickly traded up to a Minolta A2. Both took amazingly good still pictures but were useless for sports, so I moved on to the 20D.

[Sydor25]

My first Digital camera was the Canon Powershot S300 Digital Elph. I can't remember how long I've had it, I got it when it first came out. I used it until I got my 20D this past November. It has served me well and it's still in my camera bag. :)

[CRE@TE]

Nikon Coolpix 800

[Titus213]

All of mine have been digital in that I use my finger to take the picture......

Actually my first was about a year ago - $5 at Office Max - after rebate. No external memory, no flash, two AA batteries. It would hold a bunch of pictures of dubious quality. I bought it for a web cam because my Canon ES7000 video camera took up too much room on my desk.

[toddb]

Sony DSC-F1. 4MB onboard memory only with serial connection. If I remember right, it took about 15+ minutes to download the images. The resolution was 640x480.

http://www.toddburke.net/productshots/images/f1_front.jpg


I did a little comparison (http://www.toddburke.net/still/comparisons/diff.htm) of all my older digital cameras.

[Screamer]

Oh man...my first real digital camera was the Sony Cybershot 1.8MP camera. Prior to that I had some Chinese made camera that did VGA 640x480 and had IIRC 16MB of onboard memory, not removable, and some terrible serial TWAIN driver to get the images to PC. That would have been around 1998. But back to the Sony..for the time the Sony wasn't half-bad. Here is a grab shot I did with it on New Year's 2001.

http://www.pmacino.com/macino/Seattle/Seattle1.JPG

[GeForceFX]

canon from the beginning for me :)

A200 --> S1 IS --> 20D

http://users.pandora.be/ggoole1/my%20cam/cameras.jpg

[JaertX]

Oh man...my first real digital camera was the Sony Cybershot 1.8MP camera. Prior to that I had some Chinese made camera that did VGA 640x480 and had IIRC 16MB of onboard memory, not removable, and some terrible serial TWAIN driver to get the images to PC. That would have been around 1998. But back to the Sony..for the time the Sony wasn't half-bad. Here is a grab shot I did with it on New Year's 2001.


I completely forgot about those terrible, crashing TWAIN drivers!!!

bad memories...

nice picture though!

[rssfhs]

Sony Mavica.

Still have it in fact. Anyone want to buy it off me?

[exposingmyself]

izone :o

[markubig]

This was the first Digital Photo that I ever took back in the Fall of 2000 It's my Mom and Dad, taken with an Olympus Camedia D-430. I believe it was 2.2 Megapixels. Man! how times have changed http://www.photography-on-the.net/forum/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gifhttp://www.photography-on-the.net/forum/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gifhttp://www.photography-on-the.net/forum/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif

[MadTony]

Canon S410. Bought it for lightweight climbing camera. Used it for everything. Bought a digiSLR. I am just going to have to work out more to lug this thing up mountains.

[thomasrhee]

Apple Quicktake 100. That was around 10 years ago or thereabouts.

[Steve Parr]

I forget the model number, but it was a 1.2 MP Olympus. I then upgraded to a 3.1 version. When it broke, I purchased a third one. I had Olympus P&S cameras up until September of last year.

The 3.1 was nice enough for what I needed it for. The wife has it now. My daughter bought herself a Canon Power Shot SD110...

Steve

[NYC2BGI]

I had an Olympus 2.1 mp D-520 camera. I bought it when it 1st came out and I knew absolutly nothing about digital. I loved that little camera and the new ability to instantly see and email the pics.

[Geeeyejo]

Olympus D340 - 1.3 mp, no optical zoom - not a bad little cam - at highest setting took good pics - nice glass on it. Nothing compared to my S1 or 10D now though!

[rufis6]

My first was a Canon 10D; I was disappointed with the resolution and "upgraded" to a Canon 20D. It was also a disappointment. Now I have a Leica R8 and I am happily using film again: no USM, High pass sharpening and other post processing nonsense. I just run the film through my Nikon Coolscan 5000 and print as it comes from the camera. I am now waiting for Leica to come out with its 10mp back for my camera. Then I might try digital again.

[CyberDyneSystems]

It was made by Agfa,. but I don't recall the modle number,. just over 1MP (1280 X 1024 res) with a twisty Nikon coolpix type body...

It got me into taking pics again.. :)

[Skip Souza]

I started with a Kodak DC3200, 1.3 MP I believe. Simple point and shoot with no adjustability but it brought me back to photography.

Took it to Moorea (Tahiti) and never looked back.

[twl845]

My first digital was a Kodak DC4800. It was a learning camera. I learned to never buy a new model of anything because you pay top price. In this case $800. Four months later they were going for about $460. Then after one year to the day, it would'nt come on, or it would come on and an Error 11 showed up in the screen. I called Kodak and they said I could send it in and they would look at it for $150, or I could exchange it for a refurbished camera with similar features for about $170 or so. I thought about it for a while and decided to eat the camera and buy a Canon G3 which blew the Kodak away. After the Kodak sat in my draw about a year, I saw a thread on a forum from a guy with the same problem with his Kodak DC4800. To make a long story shorter, a screw in my camera had fallen out and someone who knew of 4 other people with the same problem, instructed me how to take the back off and shake the screw out on the table and then screw it back in. Now the camera is back in service and I have 2 digital cameras. The thing that gets me is that if I know of 4 people who had a DC4800 where the same screw fell out, Kodak must have had a number of people send their cameras in to get fixed, and each person paid $150 to fix a manufacturer defect. No recall was issued. I love my Canon G3, and I use the Kodak for wide angle, macro, and zoom shots because I had bought the lenses before the camera crapped out.

[Solo175]

My first digital is a Canon G5. My previous camera was a Canon Snappy. I have never owned any of those "Other" brands ;) .

[quickben]

Mine was an Olympus C-700 Ultra-Zoom. 2.1 mp 10x zoom. Quite a good little cam, sharp and contrasty but it didn't handle the blue and red channels very well. Moved up to a Canon G5 then the mighty 10D.

Gary.

[Rob612]

Started with a Canon, cannot remember the model, that was using some sort of microfloppy. A real POS but it worked.

Then an Epson PhotoPC came in - at that time it worked, I used it primarily for business, but actually it was the camera that brought me back into photography after about 20 years of traditional SLRs then abandoned because time was a problem - I was doing a lot of darkroom also. It was 1997 and the two pictures attached were taken with the little Epson.

The Epson was (finally) stolen, in the meatime I was beginning to get involved in videography and non linear editing and was playing first with a Kodak DC210 (pic with the bike), and a few months later a Kodak DC260.

Then a Nikon Coolpix 4500 came in. Nice camera, but I never get used to the strange ergonomics. Sold the 4500 and got my first Canon, the Ixus 500 I still have and that i bring underwater. Then came the 300D and nowadays I am perfectly happy with the brand new 350D.

Times have changed a lot, no doubt. What is inside you while shooting usually stays the same: passion.

[DxHatchback]

HP Photosmart 612

3 MP, took forever to load up, and ate batteries like crazy

couldnt adjust anything but flash on/off

[stoneylonesome]

My first was the Casio QV-2100, hey it had a Canon lens, followed by the Canon Powershot A40 sold it to buy the Canon G3, which I still have and now have the 10D. plus a drawer full of canon film SLRs :lol: :lol:

[mdm]

A hp 1.0 mp. It ate batteries like I go through potato chips. I bought it for 299.00 and sold it in a garage sale for 20.00. Oh well

[gmaize]

Now I really feel bad. I am certainly not worthy as I have not had to endure the digital developmental curve you all seem to have lived through.

My first digital was given to me by my fiance (now my wife) for Christmas of 2004....as a complete suprise. THE CANON 20D.

For the last 28 years I've had two cameras. My first the ubiquitous Pentax K1000 and then a Canon EOS Elan II. Finallly moved into the digital age and am not looking back. Although I do still feel the urge to use the film camera when I need two cameras for some projects.

Thanks for sharing, loved the thread of history.

--gmaize

[flyfishnj]

I can barely remember it's been so long, but I remember it was pretty bad. It was a Philips (DU-4?), and it had to be around 1994-1995. I think it was 1.2 megapixel or maybe less even. I just couldn't wait once digital was out, and have probably went through a dozen before getting my 20D. I'm still at work (14 hours and still ticking), but I'll have to dig up and old picture from it later.

You work for a dick...

10D for me. I hate shutter lag. First affordable digital camera without shutter lag

[flyfishnj]

Now I really feel bad. I am certainly not worthy as I have not had to endure the digital developmental curve you all seem to have lived through.

My first digital was given to me by my fiance (now my wife) for Christmas of 2004....as a complete suprise. THE CANON 20D.

For the last 28 years I've had two cameras. My first the ubiquitous Pentax K1000 and then a Canon EOS Elan II. Finallly moved into the digital age and am not looking back. Although I do still feel the urge to use the film camera when I need two cameras for some projects.

Thanks for sharing, loved the thread of history.

--gmaize

Wow - I followed the same path

[gmaize]

Wow - I followed the same path
NIce! It looks as though I have some catching up to do though by looking at your gear list. I can only imagine (for now) what an L lens might do in my world. Small steps....really small steps for now. Still have to pay off that March wedding first, then I can think about new toys. HAHA....I did manage to sneak in a new 100mm macro last month. This digital stuff is addictive....really!!

--gmaize

[Moments]

1993 Kodak DCS200ci 1.5mp at about $9000.00. We shot a lot of catalog shots for the MacWarehouse catalogs with it. It had a 80mb hd inside and while it was normally teathered to a PC or a Mac running PS 1.5, it was able to work unattached, but back then, no LCD, cards, etc. You had to import an image in photoshops to see it. The camera was a Nikon 8008s with a digital back that replaced the original rear door of the 8008s. It worked great at the time, and we did use it intill 2000, when I was happy to sell it for $900.00. It was very easy to clean a sensors back then. It has been an interesting ride from then to now.

[MAGIcAL]

Mine's a Sony Mavica FD90. The advantage I see then is the storage media, which is a floppy disk. No need to install a software and connect the camera to a computer in order to transfer images to it. ;)

[BlueTit]

Cant remember the make, but it was £29 (which was tooo cheap) and I bought it on the same day as a little hand held scanner. The camera was crap 320x240 I think, no removable memory, fixed lens etc. It must be about 10 years ago. in bright sun I managed to get one shot, in anything less than full sun the picture was dark. Returned the camera after a couple of days, but the scanner was brilliant but only worked off Windows 95 so it had to go eventually. Pity you can't still buy scanners like that.

About 2 years ago, I bought the A75, brilliant camera, loved it and my brother still does. I bought a Nikon 5700 or was it 5400 I loved the good optical zoom, but I thought it was too big so bought a Ixus 40, which I still have. Somewhere in the middle I decided to get the 20D and I love it. I have not used film since I was a kid with 110 or 126 films, so I really started with digital.

Wish I could remember the make of the first camera and scanner, have been holding off this post for 2 hours while I thought about it, but it is no good my memory card is faulty.

[condyk]

Kodak 240 or something, with 2x zoom and 2mp. Leading edge and bought for £300 ON SPECIAL FROM cURRY'S. wENT NHALF WAY AROUND THE WORLD WITH IT (oops!) and a couple of 16mb CF cards. Then it died in Africa so PX'd for the next model up nwhich was 3x and 3mp's. I still have this one and it's great! Then got a Sigma SA5 SLR and finally bought a couple of Panasonic FZ3's ... both sold for a profit. Awesome little camera and a great lens. Now have the 300D, etc.

[Bamamike]

My first one was a Fujifilm Finepix 3800. 3.1 Megapixel and a good lens made nice letter-sized pictures. And I could use my 55mm filters with the included adapter. Battery life was ok, flash a little bit weak, manual settings not too bad. I do not show any of this pictures taken with the camera because the limitation of the size on this site messes up every picture.

[grego]

Sony Cybershot DSC p-71

[Aussie_Dog]

My first was the Canon Powershot A60 (2mp) that I got for my birthday last year. Not bad, I'm still liking it, but I'm ready to move on to a better camera (at least 3mp). The only thing I can find wrong with this camera, as a beginner camera that is, is that it eats up batteries like mad. But with a recharger, that can be taken care of. However, I'm starting to suffer over the quality of the pictures (fuzzy more often than clear).

This is a picture I took of my dog the day after I got it. I'm calling it beginner's luck, though, 'cause my earlier pictures were good (IMO) and then I went through a drought where everything sucked. I think that's mostly 'cause it was winter and I could only take pictures inside, which isn't such a great idea.
http://images.snapfish.com/3439286323232%7Ffp63%3Dot%3E232%3B%3D%3B79%3D%3A35 %3DXROQDF%3E23235%3A5946392ot1lsi

And a few minutes later (I know it's dark)
http://images.snapfish.com/3439286323232%7Ffp63%3Dot%3E232%3B%3D%3B79%3D%3A35 %3DXROQDF%3E23235%3A59463%3A8ot1lsi

And a picture I took earlier today (I mostly used automatic features for the past year, and lately I've been playing around with the more manual stuff)
http://images.myphotoalbum.com/a/au/aus/auss/aussi/aussiedog/albums/album03/IMG_015.sized.jpg

Another
http://images.myphotoalbum.com/a/au/aus/auss/aussi/aussiedog/albums/album03/IMG_012.sized.jpg

The rest of my flower pictures aren't worth posting, lol. They came out clear, but I can tell with even my untrain eye that there's way too much wrong with them (background too distracting, for instance, or the flower blends in with the many other flowers behind it). I'm already thinking up ways to casually toss in the idea of a new camera for my birthday in a couple of months ;)

[Stosh]

a Kodak DC 200 plus. Now my wife inherited it when I got my Canon S200 digital elph. The elph now spends all of it's time in my work truck as I barely put down my 20D since I got it in November.

[michael.luczkow]

Nikon Coolpix 2500. 2MP..... that's what turned me into a photographer.
then I got a G5 because I outgrew the 2500. The G5 was a great camera and I didn't really "outgrow" it but the lens options (lack there of) left me needing an SLR. Ala 20D. -That's my story.

[guitarman3]

Mavica - I think it cost me close to $800. Still got it and it still works--even the original battery although its charge doesn't last long!

[CappuccinoDavid]

My first was under 1MP ( in 1995), it sucked. I was so use to my film cameras and this thing could me a picture to send in email but I didn't send pictures through email I shot pictures to make enlargement. And anything over 1" by 1" it was blurry. My second one was the Rebel XT, now I'm very happy with digital. I sat all my film camera on the selve for display. I guess soon I'll be going to a larger MP camera soon. But right now the XT is working great, to bad my scanner is covered with dust now. lol oh well

[bikerider]

First digital was a Kodak 4800 with few accessories, wide angle & close-up filters, it was a good 2mgpxl camera but very limited of course, a sample is below.......it's been slightly adjusted in PS and was shot during the bushfire season where I live and there was a raging fire in the hills from the right of where I photographed.

[dispatchermike21]

2mp Olympus and my dog ate it. so I got a 20D

[Clark]

Canon S10 still works great, very shrp pictures.

[aam1234]

My first digital was a camera for Nokia communicator. You take the pic and transfer it to the mobile through IR. It was something like 0.3mp (if not less :D ).

The first real digital was a Canon G3.

[Citizensmith]

Kodak, um DC500? Note sure thats the correct number but it was 2mpxl, and built like a brick sithhouse. It was solid, totaly weatherproofed and dustproof. Oh yeah and it had a recall on it because you could get a shock when you tried to replace the batteries.

[kbreit]

Kodak DC3400, same as the post a few prior to me with the brush fire.

[trickyricky]

Canon G1 - still have it - still love it!

[photocruiser96]

Olympus C-2500L...2.5 megapixels. Many, many shots taken with it before switching to Canon.

[Toogy]

The first one I used was an old Epson, I think the max resolution was 640x480 or something like that. It was horrid. I had to dis-connect the mouse from the computer in order to download the pictures!
The first real one I got was a 3.2 MP Toshiba PDR-3310, it took pretty decent pictures, but the battery live was horrendous, and had no manual controls.
Then I got my Powershot G3 and it totally changed my life, I finally learned how to use a camera! And since then I have had a 300D, 10D and now a 20D, should have just bought the 20D first!! Would have saved a lot of money :)

[jporter12]

Sony Mavica FD5. The big brick didn't even have the 2x floppy drive of the newer models! Still works! I handed it down to my little sis and she's having all sorts of fun with it! I did manage to get some ok pictures with it, an dI'm sure I could do MUCH better even with a low res camera now that I've learned more about photography.....

Oh, and the only problem with it (Other than user error) was the battery died a few months ago, so I replaced it with a cheapo from ebay, but soon realized that I wanted more and bought the Dig Rebel.....Wish I would've been around here first, as I would've found a way to get a 20D instead.....

[skyphix]

FujiFilm A201
http://www.silverace.com/photogenic/0203/fujifilm-a201.jpg

2MP, decent little camera, and I could stick it in my pocket! Got it for point and shoot purposes as I was still very into using my film SLR, paid all of 100 dollars for it refurbished, and it worked well until I stepped on it during my trip to Ireland (I said it was small, I had lost it) and broke all of the buttons on the top of the camera. It was about the size of a cig hard pack.

I tried doing some real photography with it. Wouldnt be able to get my 300D where I got that A201 to take this photo.
http://non.skyphix.com/2003/June262003/BorderedAbstract2Small.jpg

http://non.skyphix.com/2003/June262003/BorderedAbstract3Small.jpg

[sailpamc]

My second camera was a Kodak DC200+ (or was it 100+, it was stolen in Nassau from the salon of the boat we lived on while we were sleeping). My first camera was a Kodak DC-40 in 1996 (pics 754 x 504), bought it in Newport and sailed halfway round the world with it. Every time I took pics with it people thought it was a video camera it was so big and boxy. Got the second Kodak in Hong Kong in 1999. Loved it better than my Canon S40 though. But I had a Canon Rebel 35mm as well. I always carried a point and shoot even before digital.

[JMHPhotography]

Mine was an Epson PhotoPC, bought along with my Gateway (never again I promise) Pentium Pro (before the III even) back in 1996 (I think.)

Anyway, it was fun. No user controls other than turn the flash on or off. No external memory (it could hold 8 pictures if I remember correctly) and no changeable battery. You had to plug it into the wall overnight to charge it.

Thought it'd be cool to see what people started off with.

Below is a picture of the Cadillac Ranch I took in '98 with it.

Um...this isn't resized or compressed. Right out of the camera. Boy, how things have changed!

Wow that picture looks great compared to the crappy shots my first digital camera produced. I had an HP DC150 it was a 1 MP not short on basic features, but the image quality was TERRIBLE. I had it for all of three days before I took it back. I remember thinking that if this was any indication, I'd never switch from film for those important moments. Fortunatly, my faith was restored when I got a 2 mp Kodak. MUuuuuUuuch better. And I snapped off over 1200 pics with it and it's still going strong. I'm still shooting film, (Canon Rebel T2) but as soon as funds allow, I'm going to pick up a Digital Rebel XT. :D

[tucked]

It was a Polaroid PDC-640. I still have it, and my daughter uses it alot! I upgraded then to a Nikon 990, then purchased a Canon A75. (Canon was a desperation purchase, as my Nikon's battery compartment door broke about a week before we were to go on another cruise). I now have a 300D purchased in March. I still have all of them. I am keeping the Polaroid for my daughter to play around with, the A75 ,to have with me all of the time... it sure is small! and the 300D. I am getting ready to sell the Nikon 990 on ebay, as I don't need 4 cameras, and 2 in the 3 megapixel range.

Here is one of the first pictures taken with the Polaroid, my wife & I in 2000 on our first cruise.:D

[kenyc]

Here's mine, an Olympus D200L from about 6 years ago or more, it would store (internal only, no card) 20 or 80 pics depending on compression at a maximum resolution of 640 x 480 (thats about .3 MP :) ). You can see some of the pics it took on my website at:
http://www.kacweb.com/photos/gallery.html (man, does that need updating!)

I've waited on the affordable digital SLR's since that one.

KAC
P.S. in getting this camera out for the pic I found christmas pictures on it from last year :)

[soupdragon]

Still got mine.

[PhotosGuy]

My finger was the digit & it was my avatar!:D:D

[Curtis N]

Mine was the Fuji Finepix2400Zoom, around 5 years ago?
2.1 megapixel, cost $400 US at the time. Took lots of great shots with it.

Its biggest limitation was the built-in flash, which I fixed with an old 177A Speedlite, slave adapter, and a cheap flash bracket. Interestingly, it brightened the pictures but rarely overexposed them. I could also set the slave unit face-up on a table or even the floor to bounce the flash.

I wonder if this sort of adaptation would work with today's P&S digicams, or do they all use E-TTL flash metering?